Deep Cuttings Junction has an island, originally placed there during World War 2, to enable stop planks to be dropped in to isolate the top of the Birmingham and Fazeley canal from the BCN Main Line.\\This ability was needed, because the (then) LMS Railway ran under the canal, approximately where the Malt House pub now is.\\There was concern that if a bomb damaged the canal, the main line through New Street Station would be flooded, with the water from a pound that must be about thirty miles long.\\The island no longer has stop plank slots, since it was moved when the central Brum part of the canal was tidied up.

Information last edited Wednesday the 17th of January, 2018 at 11:42 AM by Shultzy.